Study: Size does matter

6:41 AM,
Apr. 9, 2013

Written by

Dan Vergano
| USA TODAY

So much for that nice smile and neat haircut -- women are indeed looking for a well-endowed guy, suggests a study of male attractiveness.

Since Darwin, biologists have studied the role of female "mate choice" in species ranging from fruit flies to people, generally finding a fondness among women for taller guys with broader shoulders. Evolutionary biologists also have pointed to the relatively larger size of human male genitalia compared with our ape cousins to suggest a link.

On the question of whether "size matters" to human women, however, the results have been mixed -- until now, says a ...